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Palliative care: benefits, barriers, and best practices.

Palliative care improves the quality of life for patients with a life-threatening illness and for their families. It aims to relieve suffering by identifying, assessing, and treating pain and other physical, psychosocial, and spiritual problems. Palliative care can be provided whether an illness is potentially curable, chronic, or life-threatening; is appropriate for patients with noncancer dia...

Crowdsourced network measurements: Benefits and best practices

Network measurements are of high importance both for the operation of networks and for the design and evaluation of new management mechanisms. Therefore, several approaches exist for running network measurements, ranging from analyzing live traffic traces from campus or Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks to performing active measurements on distributed testbeds, e.g., PlanetLab, or involv...

Cherubism: best clinical practice

Cherubism is a skeletal dysplasia characterized by bilateral and symmetric fibro-osseous lesions limited to the mandible and maxilla. In most patients, cherubism is due to dominant mutations in the SH3BP2 gene on chromosome 4p16.3. Affected children appear normal at birth. Swelling of the jaws usually appears between 2 and 7 years of age, after which, lesions proliferate and increase in size un...

Bringing evidence-based best practices into practice.

The Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) defines the term as " the judicious application of scientific knowledge by clinicians in tandem with patient preferences and values … an ongoing process of integrating evidence with the clinician's training and expertise for the care of patients and patient populations. " But, according to a 2003 study of 89 health plans sponsored by the C...

Promoting Open Scholarship in Africa: Benefits and Best Library Practices